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Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1887-08-27

Apoor girl in Chicago searching for
employment was offered place in dry
goods store at 50 a week. The cheapest
ooaH. which she could obtain cost So a
"eck, a1d the problem was naturally a
adiliicah one Her plight attracted at
.eniion. Ii was found that many others
working FOR pitifully small wages were
enable to find respectable board with
~ their mcane. The outcome has
been the opepiag up Of house for self
'gpporiing women on Illinois street,
Lhca@O, which it is hoped, will be fol-
owed by others. A few philanthropic
la'ics led the way, and now over fifty
Ucfking-Gir,s are provided with a com
Iortlble home ike living place A nights
lodging costs - cents, or $1.0J a week,
and breakfast is five cents extra, the two
costing 4l.40 weekly. Later, when ia
eliiiies are provided, other meals will be
FURNISHED. There is pleasant parlor,
aad there will be library. This is not
'cfafiiy, for the managers very sensibly
aim to make the institution self-support
ing But it i noyel attempt to reduce
the cost Of living TO the lowest possible
5Srcs compatible with the requirements
ai reason and comfort. Other "Homcsn
make comparatively elaborate provisions,
which increase the cost of board But
The Chicago "Eome" is the most promis-
NJ attempt 10 provide a respectable
md comfortable boarding place for 81 to
81 a week. and it deserves success.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1887-08-27
How Peas Are Canned.

The canning of green peas, which is
busy industry in Delaware, is an inter
esting process. The peas are shelled by
hand and then fed into the hopper of a
separator, which divides them into three
grades. Then they are put into copper
kettles, where they are steamed just
enough to wrinkle the outer skin and
intensity if possible the vivid green of the
pea. They are then filed into cans,
which are placed on an iron tray and
dipped in trough or tub of boiling
water, which runs into the cans, filling
them to the brim. This water contains
whatever of preservative nature is put
into the cans to preserve the vegetable
The cans are then wiped, sealed and
packed in iron cages, each cage holding
24s cans. These cages are put into air
tight steam kettles, where the cans are
subjected to hot steam under intense
pressure for about fifteen Or twenty
minutes. The peas arc then ready for
market.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1887-08-27
THE
Charlotte Messenger
IS PUBLISHED
Every Saturday,
AT
CHARLOTTE, N. C.

In the Interests of the colored People
Of the Country.
Ablc and well-known writer's will contrib
ute to its columns from different parts of the
country. and it win contain the:atest Gen.
erol News of the day.
In1 MESSENGER is a first-class newspaper
and viii not allow personal abuse in its col
1t is not sectarian or partisan. but
niependent-dealing fairly by ALL 1t re-
serves the right to criticise the SHORTCOMINGS
Of al public oflicials-commendin the
worthy, and recommending for election such
men as in its opinion are best suited to serve
the interests of the people.
1t is intended TO supply the long felt need
Of a newspaper TO advocate the rights and
defend the inter SIS of the Negro American
especially III :be Piedmont section Of the
CHoi.lls
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1887-08-27
COMPENSATION.

II Joy and Perfectness have crowned day
Alasl we say, this gracious day is done,
The gods will never send us such an one
Again, however We may strive and pray.
But ii in woe that knoweth no allay
Full slow the anguish hours have
run
Our hearts grow lighter with the setting
sun,
For then we feel that all hours pass away.
Now some are bound to Life with golden
bands
And Life to these is passing sweet and deaf,
They fain would lingef in each lovely yeal
And shun the pilgrimage to unknown lands.
But souls that sorrow know not any fear
When Death draws nigh with healing in his
hands.
--Groham r. 7omson, in Scribner
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1887-08-27

The Salt Lake 7rl5ane declares that
the victims in the Comstock mine have
AVERAGED one week through the twenty
seven years that the lode has been
worked That is to say, at least 1, 400
miners have been sacrificed there by fire.
gas, dead air, falls, caving-in, ex-
rIo'ions or accidents to machinery. A
peculiar sternness of feature and senten-
tiousness Of speech among the miners are
results Of this experience.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1887-08-27

tread of the WIDOW was heard, the door
opened, the dog shot out and the widow
followed-with the shotgunl
''Mis' Baxter, said Barton with a grin,
show dye dop'
She wheeled around quickly and saw
him on the roof.
"Hey2 You here again9" she said in
loud voice, while the dog made insane
efforts to gain the roof
ooh, don't be scart-I jes' come down
cause had little matter u speak Of"
"Scaft. Do act scart3 Did l act
scarf beforel"
"Oh, no, no, course not--I meant
er-."
eye don't know what ye did mean
Now you come down an git or I'll help
Tige up where ye airl'
'Don't do that, Mis- Baxter.no need
of it. come down on a very friendly
matter"
eco head, then-don't lay there like
a bump on logl"
'Remark'bly friendly matter, Mis-
Baxter"
"Well, out with it, ye old fool"
"W'y-yes 4 will. Yesee l want o
tell ye something"
"Tell it thenl"
'Well, ye see, Mis- Baxter, the fact is,
blamed if l don't kinder like yer style' ''
"There, that's jes' it-jes' zactly what
1 suspected all the time! Ye can't en-
courage these men bit 'thout some
thing o. this kind orter filed ye plum
full o. shot the first time ye were here
and then there wouldn't been none O. this
kind O. talkl'
'sAIis' Baxter, don't ack so mean t. a
fellerl l have great likin' fer yer style
an want % marry ye, if agree'blel"
''Lor' sakes, 1 knowed it frum the
frstl An then some day yell throw it
up to me that 1 led ye on, Mr.. Barker" "
mo won't, never. Sides, my name
amt Barker-it's Barton-NIis' Barton.
hey9 Mis- Phil Barton9 How does that
strike ye2"
81 reckon ye low to marry me an gel
the deed to this land yerself an don't
have nothin'l"
"W'y-w'y-rd have to, ye know, if
we was married"
"Then we won't be married. 1 tell ye;
yon move off'n it six months till prove
up, an then I'm blamed if won't have
ye, Mr.. Barton though I reckon we'd
better live in my house, cause l notice ye
baint got no tar'-paper on yours"
"Call off the dog, Mis'-Mis'-"
"My names Julia-cal me julie"
"Call off the dog, julie"
Mr. Barton descended, and the widow
said, addressing the dog:
"There now, Tige, don't bite him no
more less yer told to. Come in an sit
down, Phil, an rest awhile an try a
piece O. my wild strawberry pie"
One day the next spring Judge Posey
had just returned from drive into the
country. He put his feet up on the desk
| and leaned back to rest, saying:
II was past the place Phil Barton used
to have. The widder Baxter that was
pears TO have the place an him too. He
was talkin' to me an says he: 'Jedge,
low to put taters on that strip down by
the pump What ye goin' to put on
itT asked the widder as she come out.
'Taters, says Phil. 'Pertatersp says she.
yes, taters, says he. 4 low ye won't
do no such thing-I want beans on that
air strip" says the widder. 'Taters 'u'd
be better, says Phil. Whose farm is
thisr says the widder. Then Phil turns
TO me again, an says he: 'Jedge, Ireckon
it'll be beans on that air stripp"-Da-
kotd Bell.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1887-08-27

An experienced barber says that it il
decidedly dangerous for men who are
being shaved to read newspapers; that
BARRIERS are opposed to the practice, be-
cause the razor is held very lightly, and
the newspaper is apt to strike tho handle
and cause a cut.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1887-08-27

1t almost seems as though good ser
viceable paper can be made from ever,
kind of vegetable fibre. Grasses anc
woods of all sorts, and even peat, have
been brought into requisition, while on
of the latest intIoductions is crushed
bamboo, which has been used with verl
satisfactory results. = Casselps Magasine.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1887-08-27

James A. McGahan, the famous wal
correspondent who died during tn,
Russo. Turkish War, was native of New
Lexington, o., and is buried there. The
Central Ohio Press Association propose
70 erect monument to his memory,
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1887-08-27

An official statement just published by
William F. switzler, chief of the Bureau
Of Statistics at Washington, shows the
total number Of immigrants arrived at
tine ports Of the United States named be-
low, and from the principal foreign coun-
irihs, for the year ending June 30, 1857.
A comparison is made with the figures Of
the preyioug year:
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1887-08-27
SUBSCRIPTIONS:
Address,,

w. c. SMITH Charlotte N C,
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-10
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.

JUDGE WILLARD and representatives OF
the Sac and Fox, Creek, Chickasaw and
Cherokee Indians recently spoke before
the President against the bill to allot land
IN severalty TO the Indians.
News from Cincinnati on the 5th stated
that the rise in the Ohio river had caused
great inconvenience to railroads and steam
ers, and that at Newport, across the river,
1000 men were idle on account OF high
water. a later dispatch said the river was
slowly falling.
REV JOHN HEDMAS, rector of st. Ansga-
RUS Protestant Episcopal Church at Chi
cago, has been given until March 13 to re-
sign and withdraw from the ministry. II
ne refuses he will be officially expelled.
The charges against him are drunkenness
and immortality.
THE Central Labor Union of New York
has issued an appeal to the public at large
for funds ito aid the coal handlers to keep
up their fight for living wages until the coal
and railroad monopolists are forced to do
them justice"
THE Senate on the 5th passed sixty-slx
pension bills and then took up the Fad s
lTehuantepec bill, in speaking on which
Senator Morgan declared America would
uphold the Monroe doctrine. In the House
several messages from the President veto
ing pension bills were read, and then
The bill for the payment of what are known
as the Fourth of July claims, was
passed, after which the Diplomatic and
Consular Appropriation bill was discussed
IN rather warm manner.
Henry CHESTER. a colored man. fatally
shot Melinda Williams, a colored woman,
in Wyandotte, Kan, on the night OF the
9TH.
A TELEGRAM from Concord. n. Il. states
that an express train met with terrible
accident on the morning of the 5th, near
Woodstock, on the Central Vermont rail-
road, caused through broken rail near a
bridge over the White river, the train be-
ing precipitated fifty feet into the river be-
low, and then catching fire, burned the
bridge and many passengers. Nearly forty
persons were burned and many were re-
ported dead in the debris or under the ice.
On the afternoon of the 5th there was
quite panic in oil at Pittsburgh, Pa, the
excitement being intense and the losses
heavy.
A DISPATCH from Vienna OF a recent date
stated that Prince Bismarck had succeeded
| in establishing a coalition between Austria,
England and Italy against Russia and that
Germany would JOIN the coalition if France
supported Russia
Two shocks of earthquake were felt on
the 9th in Western Indiana and Central and
Eastern Illinois; also in Louisville, KY.
No damage was done.
| JOHN BRANDON and Richard ". Brandon.
brothers and partners in business at Forest
City, Ark, got into dispute recently about
their business. John Brandon drew a
revolver and shot his brother, killing him
instantly. He made no attempt to escape
from the officers, and was arrested.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-10
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

THE British Government has granted a
subsidy to the White Star Steamship Com
pany for the use of the steamers of that
line as armed transports in the event of
war. The agreement includes a stipulation
that the White Star Company shall build
several fast vessels in accordance with de-
signs furnished by the Admiralty.
IT was rumored in Washington that
Minister Pendleton had been recalled to
succeed Mr.. Manning as Secretary of the
Treasury. The rumor was not generally
credited.
PREMIER DEPRETIS, in the Italian Cham
Der on the 1st, announced the complete de-
feat of the Italian forces and their allies
near Massowah. Great excitement follow
ed, the Chamber immediately granting a
credit of Sl,OOO,OO0.
CONGRESSMAN REAGAN was elected Sen
ator for Texas. The final ballot stood ::
Reagan, Il; Maxey, SO: scattering, 6. Sub
sequently Reagan's election was made
unanimous.
QUEEN VICTORIA witnessed theatrical
performance in the council chamber of the
palace at Osborne, recently, for the first
time since the death of Prince Albert
The long-contested struggle for United
State Senatorship of Indiana ended in the
election of Judge Turpie, Democrat, the vote
standing: Turpie, 76; Harrison, a.
THE Sultan of Morocco has refused to
sign commercial treaties with England,
France and Germany until the abuses arts
ing from the foreign protection of natives
are removed.
1T was reported that the Italians were de-
feated by Abyssinians near Massowah in
the Soudan.
KING GEORGE opened Parliament on the
Sd at Athens, Greece. In his speech he
said that at present the foreign relations of
Greece were normal, and on that account
the State was enabled to attend to its home
affairs
THE President on the 4th signed the In
terstate Commerce bill; also the act to fix
a day for the meeting of the electors of the
President and Vice-President, and the act
authorizing the construction of a bridge
over the Mississippi river at st. Louis.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-10
A Brave Little Boy.

AsHTABULA, o., Feb.4.-During the absence
of William Morrison, of this city, from his
home Tuesday night, Mrs. Morrison pre-
pared bowl of paris green and water.
which she attempted to force her six chill
dren to drink. She succeeded only with
one, little girl of six years. The mother
then threatened to cut her own throat, but
was deferred by an eight-year old son, who
suggested hanging as an easier mode Of dy-
ing. A rope was obtained, and the little fell
low went alOft in an unfinished portion OF
the house and tied the rope to joist. The
mother then secured barrel, got upon it,
placed her head through the moose, kicked
over the barrel and swung off. The child
then hurried aloft, cut the rope and saved
his dying mother. At last accounts the little
girl is hanging to life by thread, and the
mother is too Frustrated to realize her near
ness to eternity or the fearful crime she sc
nearly contaminated.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-10
Miscellaneous.

PENNY ROD, an Indian, shot and killed
his brother-in-law, J. II. Maher, at Ross
vile, the other day. Both had been drink.
ing. Maher had just returned from an alb
sence of four years. Maher was asleep
when shot, but had revolver in his pocket.
He had married Rods sister, a half-breed
Indian, several years ago, squandered her
money and left her. Mrs. Maher has beer
dead two years. The murder was the re-
suit of an old quarrel, aggravated by the
free indulgence in whisky.
THE Kansas State Eclectic Medical Asso-
citation recently held their annual meeting
at Topeka. The following officers were
elected: President, DIR. H. s. Lawrence. of
Garden City: first vice-president, DR.. J. L.
Grinnell. of Peabody; second vice-presi-
dent, DR.. c. W. Tidwall, of Kansas City;
secretary, DR.. n. Simmons, of Lawrence
treasurer. DR.. Martin, of Topeka.
THE second ice crop was good.
THE other evening the tent of John Gill.
who had camped near Wllsey, caught fire
while his wife was temporarily absent and
their three-months-old babe burned to death.
The mother, in her frantic attempts to save
her child, was seriously and perhaps fatally
burned.
LATE post-office changes in Kansas: Es-
tablished. jerome, Cove County, Andrew j.
Whitehair postmaster; Lafayette, Stevens
County, John Moore, postmaster. Discon-
tinued, Bartgestown, Rice County; Craven
ton, Mcpherson County; Itasca, Sumner
County; Pearlette, Meade County: Purdy-
vile, Hodgeman County; Trenton, kingman
County, Ursula, Ottawa County.
THE Governor recently nominated to the
Senate ". T. Lea to be Commissioner Of IL
surance.
OFFICER WARD, of the Topeka police
force, was shot and perhaps fatally wound
ed the other night. Bud Knapp and Sandy
Short, two gamblers on spree, were ar
rested for the crime Before he fell the
officer wounded Sandy Short, one Of his as
sailants.
THE Kansas Home Insurance Company, Of
Topeka, recently filed its charter.
OK the night of January 80 a masked mob
attacked the jail at Leavenworth, dragged
out the negro who so brutally assaulted the
daughter of F. NJ. Starnes few days pre-
vious, and throwing rope around his neck
and dragged him to death.
THE dwelling and all outbuIdings OF
Miles O'Rourke, situated four niles from
Larned, burned to the ground the other day.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-10
A COLD RUN.
A Saloonkeeper's Spree and Its Serious
Results.

SaloOnkeeper's spree and Its Serious
Results.
WATERBURY, Conn, Feb 4-TOm RestOn.
a saloonkeeper of this place, formerly lived
at Thomaston, ten miles from here, and.
with several choice spirits, he went over
there Wednesday and, after INDUCING II
much liquor, repaired to his old boarding
house, went directly to the room formerly
occupied by himself, and, taking of his
clothes, threw himself on the bed. Since
he had left there the widow had married
and her husband, coming home and finding
q stranger in bed, routed him out of the
house and started him hatless and coatless
and without any extra clothing running to
ward Waterbury over the icy road. RestOr
was too drunk TO know enough to go into
some place, and ran all the way home,
which he reached about cGe-o'clOck in the
morning, completely exhausted, almost
speeches. and covered with blood. On the
way he was taken for a lunatic and pLr
sued, but managed to elude the citizens
who sought to capture him. RestOn's head
bears cash two inches long and his feet
are so badly frozen that probably his toes
will have TO be amputated and possibly his
feet. Over the wound on his head is a
large lump and the wound is frost bitten.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-10
MISCELLANEOUS.

By the advice of counsel the Union Pacific
Railroad Company has decided to cease the
issue Of all complimentary passes as soon
as the Interstate Commerce bill goes into
effect. The decision applies to every species
of free travel.
THOMAS II. RUSSELL, the assignee in the
case of Nickerson q Co., shipping mer-
chants of Boston, finds the firms liabilities
toaggregate about 5000, 600, of which about
500 is secured. Most of the creditors
have assented to the assignment.
SECRETARY MANNING informed the Sen
ate the other day that so far as was known
no national banks were loaning or discount
ing bills or notes requiring payment in
gold coin only.
KNIGHTS OF LABOR have boycotted Ar
mour & Co.'S meats.
THE threatened strike of the Cambridge
(Mass.) horse railroad employees has been
averted. The company granted all the de-
mands of the men.
THE difficulty between the Stevedores'
Association and the firm of Lear & Con-
zales at Pensacola, Fla, has been adjusted,
the firm paying to the association $500 to
compensate the men for the loss of time,
and agreeing to hereafter conform to the
rules and requirements of the labor organi-
cations.
THE cattle of Northern and Western
Wyoming were reported suffering from the
effects of bad weather.
THREE men were walking on the Boston
& Providence railroad track near HYDE
Park, Mass, recently, and stepped from one
track to avoid a local train, when tsey were
run down by the Steamboat express and
killed. They were Peter Mack, Hugh
Trainor and James Smith, Jr.
ALL but twenty of the clerks in the Office
of the Chief Signal Officer have signed a
petition to Congress for the transfer of the
Signal Corps 10 the civil list.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-10
ANOTHER PANIC.
Political RumOrs Cause Intense Excite
ment at the Money Centers of Europe.

Political RumOrs Cause Intense Excite
ment at the Money Centers of Europe.
LONDON, Feb 4-There was intense ex-
element on the stock exchanges all yester-
day afternoon, and at the close of the mar
ket panicky feeling prevailed. The un-
favorable state of the market was due
chiefly to reports of heavy failures on the
Paris BOurse, and to rumOrs, as yet I'M
confirmed, that large banking insti-
tuition in Berlin had collapsed. The
French, Italian, Russian and Hunga-
rian securities were down 2 TO 81
per cent, and consols after noon
sold heavily, prices relapsing from the
opening 1-16 for money and Is for account.
The panic on the Stock Exchange set in
with the greatest force in the afternoon.
The widest rumors were credited and the
best home and foreign securities were
largely sold. Business continued active in
the street until the Petite Bourse quota
tiOns from Paris were received, which
showed that the panic was intensifying on
the Continent, and caused depression and
anxiety at the close. The reckless selling
OF railroad securities was partially checked
by New York buying. Besides English or
ders Berlin and Paris threw large masses
of stock in the market.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-10

A BROOKLYN doctor has been inn
PEELED, by the New York bill to abolish
hanging, to once more advocate the
vivisection of criminals condemned to
die. The life for life " principal is
understood usually as meaning ''death
for DEATH" but the murderer-vivisec-
ton scheme supplies quite anew read
ing. The argument is-that man.
having taken life, shall be tortured
so as TO enable the medical profession
to save other lives. The logic is good,
and if anything should act asa deter
rent to crimes of violence, it would be
the fear of dissection during life by
doctors and medical students.